US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on Feb. 17 for "System and method for improving item scan rates in distribution network" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,068, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"System and method for improving item scan rates in distribution network" was invented by Ryan J. Simpson (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method for improving scan rates of an item in a distribution network. The system may include an item scan database storing item scan datasets containing barcodes, item datasets and optical character recognition (OCR) labels datasets and a processor in data communication with the item scan database. The processor may detect an item barcode with an item orienta...